I know that no one comes on this anymore, but I wanted to write down the events of this evening and I don't know where on earth my journal has gotten to. Tonight Cathy's family invited me to see Elton John in concert! It was soo oooo oooo cool! We went to Cricket amphitheater and we were very very early. We met up with some of their friends and ate some snacks. Then we filed into the amphitheater (which took a while, as it was very disorganized) and took our seats. Elton came on right on time, wearing this really cool black and blue suit, with a sparkly picture of a man (probably him) hanging out of a crocodile's mouth! It sounds weird, and it was, but it was definitely a crocodile and I liked it haha. He was so good in concert! He has been playing for almost 40 years now, and his voice has not gone all Bob Dylan-y. Some of the songs he played were Levon, Daniel, Tiny Dancer, Grey Seal, Rocketman, Someone Saved My Life Tonight, Saturday Nights Alright, Philadelphia Freedom, Candle in the Wind, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Bennie and the Jets, The Bitch is Back, Your Song, and Circle of Life! He also played a new song entitled Never Too Old To Hold Somebody, which was so cute. I recorded Tiny Dancer on my camera, and it sounds so good! I am so happy with it, especially since at the concert it sounded awful when I tried to replay what I had recorded. But after bringing it home I have realized that digital cameras that friends buy you for your birthday are way better at recording than cellular telephonos. He also just improvised for quite a while, probably 5-10 minutes at least of just him playing piano. Poor Elton though, he was sick while performing! After playing Tiny Dancer, he apologetically excused himself, saying that he has a stomach virus. He went backstage for a few minutes and returned, informing us that he had just thrown up and was ready to continue. He then played for two straight hours! As Russell said, "Elton John's a monster." During The Bitch is Back, this woman jumped up onstage and started dancing around! She was onstage for maybe 20 seconds total; these big dudes in white came right on over and escorted her off. It was really funny though. Elton John is a great performer. I didn't expect watching a guy play piano for three hours to be fun, but he made great facial expressions, and the songs were so fun that time flew.
I am going to get flowers for the Weirs tomorrow or Monday to make sure they know that I appreciate the invitation to join them tonight. I told them, but I'd like to do something extra as well. I got some awesome pictures of him too; my camera has an awesome zoom on it!
It's bedtime now, I just wanted to write this down somewhere, while it's still fresh in my brain.
